Arkady S. Tandilyan Th. M., Neighbor

  He was born (1975) in Armenia, in a small village of Haxpat-- a wonderful place surrounded by mountains and valleys.

               After graduating the local high school (1992), he continued his education in the Pedagogical College of Yerevan with a dream of becoming a teacher.  But life sometimes takes us places that we would never imagine.

               In 1995 instead of continuing his education in a graduate school, he chose to become a member of the Armenian Church by serving the Church as a clergy.  This required a long journey of seven years in the monastic community of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin.

               After graduating the Seminary in 2002, he was ordained to the diaconate.  His graduate thesis was on “Bioethics” and discussed the moral and ethical aspects of the achievements of modern biology.   (In this work he briefly discussed the seven problems of bioethics mainly concentrating on human Cloning).

               In 2002, Arkady Tandilyan was accepted to Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline MA, USA.  Here, he continued his education and received Masters degree in Theological Studies.

In 2011 he returned to Holy cross as a student of Th. M. Program graduating the corse work in 2012 presently he is working on his second masters theses studying the problems of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) from ethical prospective.

               Arkady Tandilyan is a blessed father of a wonderful family with wife Kellie, son Michael and daughter Ella.     

He is presently the director of St. Paul's Episcopal Church school and religious education.